After 30 years on its present site in Hatch Lane, Windsor, Thames Hospice has been given the go-ahead to expand onto a new site on land south of Bray Lake off Windsor Road, Bray.

The new proposed 28 bed hospice will also support an out patient unit, counselling and education facilities.

The outpatients unit will include a family support centre containing a day room, physiotherapy centre with bathing facilities and a suite of consulting and counselling rooms.

The education centre will offer training to staff and the general public with the aim of equipping others to offer high quality end of life care.

The building is in a series of single and two storey projections reaching 12 metres at their highest point and arranged around a spherical hub.

The site is bounded by a public footpath which runs around the lake to the north and the A308 to the south.

The land to the west of the site is agricultural fields and the proximity of water and fields was seen as the ideal environment for people facing the last stage of their life..